“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Recently I've been dreaming of cursing old people with little provocation, because their culture has a long history of enslaving, raping, and… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
“Blue eyes. No, not just blue, blue like glacial waters, like romantic poems, like heavens and moonstones. Cornflower blue. And- Blue like… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
“The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“If you had swum across the furthest ocean And seen the vastness of infinity Though dread of death might seize you, you'd… — Goethe Copy Share Image
